I'm in Corel 9 & 11 and have been having a hell of a problem lately. I've been doing a lot of business cards printed at Postcard press.
Problem is when I have a design that has a colored background and I have some text with a drop shadow.(the dropshadow is set to 50 transparent) Everything is fine until I export to tiff to send to Postcard Press.
The drop shadow turns to a light grey color, not at all what I want. I'm on WinXP Pro, I don't recall this problem with Win 98.
I think it may be a color profile thing or something, not quite sure.
Anybody got an idea? I'd sure like to hear it.
Thanks in advance.
Tony B
Posted by Mark Smith (Member # 298) on :
Tony, I just tried it with Corel 9 and had no problem at all. I placed a red 3.5"x2" rectangle, put the word "Test" on it in Black, duplicated the word, slightly offset the duplicate, and made the duplicate 50% transparent.
Then I selected the whole thing, clicked File > Export and exported it as a 1:1 300dpi tiff file in RGB.
Worked like a charm.
CMYK, however, was U-G-L-Y so I brought my RGB tif file into Photoshop for the conversion and it worked much better.
Hope this helps a bit -
Posted by Mike Pipes (Member # 1573) on :
Tony,
If a 50% transparent black is making a grey shadow, I would snoop around Corel and check settings for color traps or overprinting.
It sounds to me like it's automatically trapping the colors and the TIFF Export filter isn't handling the transparency properly, thus a 50% black would result in light grey on white stock.
Other than that, I dont know what to tell ya. I'm on Ver 8 and can't locate the transparency settings (if 8 even has them, I didnt have any luck finding em.. hehhhe)
What about duplicating the background color for the drop shadow, then in the properties box for that object you can change the fill color by adding more black to it, duplicating the effect that way?
Posted by Bruce Evans (Member # 44) on :
After you've made the shadow, try converting everything to a bitmap within corel, then export to the tif file.
Everything i send to Post Card Press is .ai files. Even if it has a bitmap background. In Corel, I do a "save as", then change the file type to "ai" then choose version 6.0 Then I open the file in illustrator 9 and save it as a version 8 illustrator file and then send it to them.
Posted by Tony B (Member # 935) on :
Thanks for the replies. I tried duplicating the text and making it into the shadow and that worked somewhat.
I tried the save as AI, but that had weird results in itself.
What I did was to make a shadow with the shadow tool, then make my adjustments etc, then select "multiply" from the dropdown list. I don't know how it works, but it does. One of those marvels I guess.
I have been giving the Corel 11 a whirl, but so far I prefer version 9 better as far as user interface.
All my previous cards I had done had shadowing, but on white backgrounds.
Thanks Guys,
Tony B
[ November 15, 2003, 01:02 PM: Message edited by: Tony B ]
Posted by Glenn S. Harris (Member # 2190) on :
Tony,
I bet it's the RGB, CMYK thing. Make your TIFF RGB from Corel & change to CMYK in Photopaint or something.
I've had troubles making TIFFs with Corel 9 at times myself. It's created extra little marks & stuff. Nothing I couldn't fix in Photopaint though.
